Department: Fintech
Level: 3H
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Posted: Jun 08, 2026
Deadline: Jun 16, 2026
Status: Open
About MTN
Mobile Money Rwanda Limited is focused on attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining professionals that contribute meaningfully to our mission of making our customers’ lives a whole lot BRIGHTER.
We are an equal employer with a strong culture that looks forward to and encourages creative thinking and innovation while remaining at the forefront of the latest technology and trends.
Mobile Money Rwanda Limited is therefore Internally and Externally recruiting a highly competent and self-motivated individual for the position below.
Mission/Core purpose of the Job
- Responsible for the end-to-end design, availability, performance, scalability and security of MTN Rwanda’s IT infrastructure – compute, storage, network, data centre, and cloud – and of the enterprise data platforms that power the business.
- Ensures resilient, secure and cost-efficient infrastructure together with trusted, well-governed data foundations (data lake, data warehouse, databases, streaming and analytics platforms) that enable telecom, fintech and digital services.
- The role partners with engineering, cybersecurity, vendors and business leadership to enable scalability, innovation, data-driven decision-making and customer trust across the MTN ecosystem.
Key Performance Areas
- Infrastructure Operations & Availability: Own the design, build and run of compute, storage, network, virtualisation and data centre services; ensure high availability, scalability and resilience for critical telecom and MoMo workloads; maintain and continuously improve SLAs, OLAs and uptime targets.
- Cloud & Hybrid Management: Drive cloud adoption, migration and FinOps across public/private/hybrid environments; ensure secure, well-architected and cost-optimised cloud landing zones and workloads.
- Data Platform Engineering & Governance: Own enterprise data platforms – data lake, data warehouse, databases, streaming and pipelines; ensure data availability, integrity, lineage, quality and accessibility to enable analytics and AI/ML.
- Capacity, Performance & Demand Management: Lead capacity planning, performance tuning and demand forecasting; proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks before business impact.
- Security, Compliance & Risk: Enforce infrastructure and data security controls including access management, hardening, patching, encryption, logging and monitoring; support regulatory audits and data protection compliance; partner with Cybersecurity on incident handling.
- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery: Own BCP and DR for infrastructure and data platforms; ensure backup, replication and restoration confidence; conduct regular DR testing aligned to regulator expectations.
- Cost, Asset & Lifecycle Management: Manage infrastructure budgets, asset lifecycle, licensing and capacity investments; drive cost optimisation and value realisation.
- Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code: Drive automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and self-service provisioning to improve speed, consistency and reliability.
- Vendor & Managed Services Oversight: Ensure infrastructure, cloud and data vendors meet contractual SLAs, KPIs and security requirements; drive performance reviews, escalation management and cost optimisation.
- Leadership & People Management: Lead and develop infrastructure engineers, cloud engineers, database administrators and data engineers; build shift/on-call models and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Prepares and submits monthly infrastructure and data platform performance reports to IT leadership.
- Lead and develop infrastructure engineers, cloud engineers, database administrators (DBAs) and data engineers.
- Establish and manage on-call and shift models for critical infrastructure and data platform support.
- Conduct performance reviews, coaching and capability development.
- Foster a culture of accountability, resilience, engineering excellence and continuous improvement across the Infrastructure and Data Platforms function.
Experience
- 10+ years of IT experience, with 5+ years in senior infrastructure, cloud, or data platform leadership roles.
- Strong experience designing and operating data centres, hybrid/cloud infrastructure, databases and enterprise data platforms in mission-critical environments.
- Proven track record managing capacity, availability, vendor management and regulatory/data protection compliance.
- Experience in telecom, fintech, or high-volume transaction environments is an advantage.
Education Background
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Master’s Degree or MBA is an advantage.
- Relevant certifications such as cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), infrastructure, virtualisation, or data platform certifications. Fluent in English.
How To Apply
All interested candidates are requested to apply through the MTN website and submit their updated curriculum vitae with copies of notified academic credentials no later than 16th June 2026 MTN Website portal: https://www.mtn.co.rw/careers/
We strongly encourage applications from women and/or individuals with disabilities.
Note: Should you not hear from us within 14 (fourteen) days from the closing date of this advertisement, you may consider your application unsuccessful. If you encounter any issues when completing the application, reach out to Alozius.Mutamba@mtn.com (+250788319965)
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